RIDLEY, FLORIDA RUFFIN
(†1943)> FOLKLORIST(?)
RIDLEY, FLORIDA RUFFIN. Folklorist(?) (fl. late nineteenth century in Boston, Massachusetts; March 1943 in Toledo, Ohio). Nothing is known of her musical career except that she was one of the founders of the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore in Boston, Massachusetts, in March 1890. The Society met at the Revere Street Church. This apparently was the earliest group of black folklorists; white groups interested in the study of black folklore had been organized earlier at Hampton…